The Building an Equitable Future Together policy framework – originally launched in 2020 – has been updated based on your feedback, lessons learned from the pandemic and issue area analysis, providing fresh insight on the needs we can anticipate in the years to come and how we can respond.
Midwest Partnership states – Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio – have more community members living in rural communities than the national average (26% vs. 20%). These 9 million people living in rural communities generally experience 1-3% higher rates of poverty and fewer opportunities for upward economic mobility. Despite this demonstrated need, nationally, we see less than 7% of philanthropic spending in rural communities (when Missouri dug deeper, the finding was a shocking less than 1%). Through convening, funding, and advocacy, grantmakers have an opportunity to strengthen rural ecosystems by supporting alignment of local efforts and resources, championing scalable pilot programs, and promoting an asset-based approach.
Join your philanthropy peers for a Michigan Forum for African Americans in Philanthropy (MFAAP) in Kalamazoo! This event is sponsored by the Kalamazoo Community Foundation, and light fare and two drinks will be included. This event is open to all current and prospective members of CMF's MFAAP affinity group. Please feel free to come anytime between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. Please note that the event ends at 6:00 p.m. We look forward to seeing you!
The DAFRC research team hopes this data will be used to improve best practices, inform relevant regulation, or enhance the field’s use of DAFs as a philanthropic tool for donors, DAF sponsoring organizations, and other sector partners.
At Exponent Philanthropy, we help lean funders collect feedback from their communities through the Grantee and Applicant Perception Survey. Over the past 2 years, we’ve worked with six foundations to survey more than 400 nonprofits to learn what lean funders do well and where they can improve.
Investments in early care and education have been a throughline for OFL; this resource shares institutional knowledge and demonstrates the critical inflection points in which philanthropy helped move advancements in the 0-5 space.
Since 2019, PACE has been leading research on the impressions and relationships American voters have with various civic terms, surveying thousands and gaining rich insights about the power of words to connect and divide us from people different than ourselves.
Along the way, we were compelled by the challenge many face in philanthropy and in civic life broadly: finding ways to appeal to a broad audience without sending unintended signals that halt a conversation before it even begins.
In this edition of CMF’s Annual Report, you will read about how your peers in rural, urban and suburban communities are bringing people together across a spectrum of issues, perspectives and lived experiences
The guide is intended to be a playbook for philanthropy, highlighting lessons learned from the five sites and key considerations for ensuring community voice is centered in the decision-making process for community investments.
This how-to guide, created through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Expanding Equity program, has helpful tips for choosing and refining a DEI governance structure for your organization and offers supporting tools and processes (e.g., metrics, rewards and recognition) that can help make it stick. It uses a sample company called EE Corp — created based on the experiences of Expanding Equity network members — as it establishes its DEI infrastructure. Building this infrastructure is a multi-step process.
